https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/live-concerts-may-not-return-until-fall-2021-healthcare-advisor/
Dr. Ezekiel "Zeke" Emanuel, one of the key architects of the Affordable Care Act and a special adviser to the director general of the World Health Organization, told The New York Times that he doesn't anticipate it to be safe to return to concerts, sporting events and other mass public gatherings for another 18 months.
"Restarting the economy has to be done in stages, and it does have to start with more physical distancing at a work site that allows people who are at lower risk to come back," he said. "Certain kinds of construction, or manufacturing or offices, in which you can maintain six-foot distances are more reasonable to start sooner. Larger gatherings — conferences, concerts, sporting events — when people say they're going to reschedule this conference or graduation event for October 2020, I have no idea how they think that's a plausible possibility. I think those things will be the last to return. Realistically we're talking fall 2021 at the earliest. Restaurants where you can space tables out, maybe sooner."
He continued: "In Hong Kong, Singapore and other places, we're seeing resurgences when they open up and allow more activity. It's going to be this roller coaster, up and down. The question is: When it goes up, can we do better testing and contact tracing so that we can focus on particular people and isolate them and not have to reimpose shelter-in-place for everyone as we did before?"
Public health experts have repeatedly expressed their concern that Americans are underestimating how long the coronavirus pandemic will disrupt everyday life in the country.
As the coronavirus disease continues to spread, live event organizers have been canceling or postponing large gatherings, including concerts and festivals.
Entertainers, crew and other workers in the industry have already lost billions of dollars as a result of COVID-19-related cancelations, representing only a small fraction of the financial devastation that will be experienced by workers in the sector as cancelations continue to roll in.
On March 11, the World Health Organization labeled COVID-19 a "pandemic." "Pandemic is not a word to use lightly or carelessly," WHO chief Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a news conference. "We cannot say this loudly enough or clearly enough or often enough. All countries can still change the course of this pandemic."
In recent weeks, a number of artists have held virtual concerts from their homes as the world continues to practice social distancing to slow the spread of the virus.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute Of Allergy And Infectious Diseases, has predicted that American students would be able to return to school this fall even if the virus is still lingering. But Fauci has also said there could be further waves of the coronavirus, particularly this fall.
Emanuel recently criticized the Trump administration's response to the virus outbreak, saying that the government's focus has been flawed because it is only considering the course of the virus over the next eight weeks.
Everyone has a plan, till you get punched in the face,
Dammitt , I say no !!!!! if they let me withdraw my money from 401k this summer, why not us fans sponsor “the 6 foot festival”, with Your headliners the Allman Betts Band!!! With exciting supporting acts TBA!!!! Instead of 2000 tickets at 20$ apiece, sell 1000 at 40$, as the fest title says stay 6 ft away from everyone???? Can it work?????..........Peace.........joe. Or could be quite literally, “the Stand Back Festival “
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Dammitt , I say no !!!!! if they let me withdraw my money from 401k this summer, why not us fans sponsor “the 6 foot festival”, with Your headliners the Allman Betts Band!!! With exciting supporting acts TBA!!!! Instead of 2000 tickets at 20$ apiece, sell 1000 at 40$, as the fest title says stay 6 ft away from everyone???? Can it work?????..........Peace.........joe. Or could be quite literally, “the Stand Back Festival “
I love this idea.
Stand Back Festival
love this idea.
X2. Six square feet per person, sounds kind of nice actually. Room to move!
Now Watkins Glen 2 would take a few square miles . . .
Dammitt , I say no !!!!! if they let me withdraw my money from 401k this summer, why not us fans sponsor “the 6 foot festival”, with Your headliners the Allman Betts Band!!! With exciting supporting acts TBA!!!! Instead of 2000 tickets at 20$ apiece, sell 1000 at 40$, as the fest title says stay 6 ft away from everyone???? Can it work?????..........Peace.........joe. Or could be quite literally, “the Stand Back Festival “
At the risk of being a killjoy, nobody would let you - you'd never get insurance or a permit - but even if you could, bands don't want to die for one gig, most fans don't want to die for a show, ushers and security people don't want to die for one nights' work, etc. And good luck getting the band from their homes to the show and the stage set up without people coming within six feet of each other either, and getting all the fans to the venue and to their spots without coming within six feet of each other. Once you've done that you can figure out the bathroom situation. Is everyone going to get one Port-A-Potty? Anyway, six feet isn't some kind of magical virus barrier. It's just a distance that seems to reduce the odds of transmitting it a bit, which slows its spread, and there's evidence it should be ten feet. That's why everyone's being told not to go out and do things that aren't essential. Anything that reduces the chances of people coming into contact with each other helps, and you can't put on a live concert that doesn't do that.
Dammitt , I say no !!!!! if they let me withdraw my money from 401k this summer, why not us fans sponsor “the 6 foot festival”, with Your headliners the Allman Betts Band!!! With exciting supporting acts TBA!!!! Instead of 2000 tickets at 20$ apiece, sell 1000 at 40$, as the fest title says stay 6 ft away from everyone???? Can it work?????..........Peace.........joe. Or could be quite literally, “the Stand Back Festival “
At the risk of being a killjoy, nobody would let you - you'd never get insurance or a permit - but even if you could, bands don't want to die for one gig, most fans don't want to die for a show, ushers and security people don't want to die for one nights' work, etc. And good luck getting the band from their homes to the show and the stage set up without people coming within six feet of each other either, and getting all the fans to the venue and to their spots without coming within six feet of each other. Once you've done that you can figure out the bathroom situation. Is everyone going to get one Port-A-Potty? Anyway, six feet isn't some kind of magical virus barrier. It's just a distance that seems to reduce the odds of transmitting it a bit, which slows its spread, and there's evidence it should be ten feet. That's why everyone's being told not to go out and do things that aren't essential. Anything that reduces the chances of people coming into contact with each other helps, and you can't put on a live concert that doesn't do that.
I don't know about that? Pretty sure I would have the full support of Dear President Trump? Hell, I would probably wind up hanging out at the Whiite House with Kim and Kanye???!!! 😛 ..............stay safe.......joe
